Asian Heritage Month: Challenging Discrimination is the Steelworkers Way Each year, Steelworkers celebrate May as Asian Heritage Month. We recognize the incredible contributions Asian Canadians have made to this country, and to our union. We also recognize that there is more to be done to fight for equality for everyone, and particularly for Asian Canadians, […]
BURNABY, B.C. – Just a few weeks before the 28th anniversary of the Westray Mine explosion that killed 26 workers in the early hours of May 9, 1992, the United Steelworkers union (USW) says calls for a criminal investigation into the death and infection of workers at the Cargill meat processing plant in High River, […]
TORONTO – The Steelworkers Humanity Fund is contributing $50,000 to the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity in emergency relief for garment sector workers put out of work by the COVID-19 pandemic. As the novel coronavirus spreads across the globe, garment retailers and fashion brands have cancelled orders and refused to pay for orders of clothes […]
OTTAWA – Members of the United Steelworkers union (USW) at Ottawa-based Power Precast Solutions have ratified a new collective agreement that provides significant wage increases, opportunities for skills training, better winter clothing, along with improvements to sick days and control over mandatory overtime. A tentative agreement was reached with the company in March but, because […]
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